Action Plan for Nurses & HCA Facing Termination:

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  1. Do not quit your job; make your employer do all the work. Record sessions and take a support person to meetings
  2. Consider the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. Consider raising a Section 83 Health & Safety concern (https://www.facebook.com/groups/427291122254409). The employer cannot terminate you when you have raised a health and safety concern. This will help later with a PG should you be terminated. 
  3. The Covid Orders do not over-rule the Health and Safety Act.  An employer has an obligation to make sure an employee is safe at work and anything that the employer requires must have a thorough risk assessment. It is the explicit job of the PCBU (Employer) to make sure that all employees are safe under Sections 47 & 48. The government has overstepped it’s reach by providing a risk analysis and therefore unlawfully assumed the duties of a PCBU.
  4. Contact your union representative, they are paid to represent you
  5. Discuss alternative options (telehealth, policy work, admin, rosters) with your manager
  6. You are entitled to four weeks special pay from your notice of termination plus annual leave paid out
  7. If you are terminated, you can still raise a personal grievance (you have 90 days from date of termination to do this)
  8. Consider requesting a sabbatical, unpaid leave, annual leave or stress/sick leave (as appropriate) as a means of deferring termination
  9. Reach out to your NFFNZ Regional Co-ordinator or email nursesforfreedomnz@gmail.com for support
  10. To the best of our knowledge, student nurses are not registered HCP and do not fall under the Covid Order as long as they are not in a healthcare setting – please contact us for more information with regard to placements specifically.
 
 
Note: This advice should not take the place of professional advice from a legal expert. Please consider talking to a lawyer or visit https://www.voicesforfreedom.co.nz/resources for FAQ’s around termination and details of how to access brief legal advice. 

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